Decius wrote:

As the Gulf Coast reels from two catastrophic storms in a month, and the Carolinas and Florida deal with damage and debris from hurricanes this year and last, even some supporters of coastal development are starting to ask a previously unthinkable question: is it time to consider retreat from the coast?

The problem is that there are major earthquake risks in most of the rest of the US, but those things happen much less frequently. Ironically the safest areas in the country are probably the west-central quaridor (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Montana, etc..) which are also the least populated.

I am not normally a grammar whore but this is the New York Times:

ITS Time to Evacuate, not it's time...

it's is possesive. its is the conjunction. confusing, I know, but you get paid to create an english newspaper, chumps...

RE: Some Experts Say It's Time to Evacuate the Coast (for Good)